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HENRY B. HUNTINGTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SLEIGH OR SLED RUNNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,543, dated May 17,1881.

Application iiled March 14, 1881. (No model.)

[0 all whom it may concer-n:

Beit known that I, HENRY B. HUNTINGTON, of the city, county, and Stateof VNew York. but now temporarily residing at Belfast, of the county ofWaldo and State ot' Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSleighs or Sleds or the Runners thereof; and I do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following' specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side View, and Fig. 2a transverse section, of a sleigh-runner provided with my invention, themain purpose of which is to afford to the runner a greaterbearing-surface on the snow than it would have Without such invention,such increase of bearing being to prevent the runner from sinking deeplyinto the snow, and thereby materially increasing` the resistance to beovercome by the draft animal or animals applied to the sleigh or sled ofwhich the runner may be a part.

It is well known that owing to the little travel in winter on mostcountry roads the snow thereon is often easily penetrated bythe runnersof sleighs or sleds, which, sinking Within it, correspondingly ormaterially increase the labor required ot' the horse or draft-animals inadvancing the sleigh or sled. It is usual to re-enforce the woodenrunner of a sleigh with a bar of iron or steel applied toits tread, suchbeing not only7 to strengthen the runner and prevent it from wear, butto render it easier to be moved on the snow or frozen sur face; but sucha re-enforce is seldom or never materially wider than the tread of therunner.

In carrying out my invention l make use of an auxiliary metallic shoe ofgreater `or about double the width of the tread or main or permanentshoe of the runner, and I arrange such auxiliary shoe beneath the treador main shoe, and provide it (the said auxiliary shoe) with means, ashereinafter described,fortixing it to the runner and its permanent shoe.By extending underneath `the permanent shoe or tread of the runner, theauxiliary shoe not only serves to `prevent the sleigh or sled fromsinking too far into the snow, but it preserves the main shoe or treadfrom Wear, and is in such case a much better protection than it would bewere it arranged somewhat above the tread and fastened on the inner faceof the runner. With the auxiliary shoe arranged and provided withfastenings, as described, one or more other advantages result, ashereinafter mentioned.

In the drawings, A denotes a sleigh-runner, B its usualpermanently-fixed metallic re-enforce or shoe, and O the removable orauxiliary re-enforce or shoe, whose width is about double that of theshoe B. The shoe O, arranged on the runner in manner as represented, isprovided with several pairs of standards, b, to project up from it onopposite sides of the tread-bar a of the runner and against the edgesofthe shoe B. Each of these standards has a screw, c, in its upper part,and goes through one of a set o t' clips or cross-bars, d, extendingtransversely over the upper edge of the bar a. Nuts e are screwed uponthe screws, and with the clips and standards serve to confine thebroader or auxiliary shoe in place on the runner.

It will be observed that the screw-standards, by resting against theedges of the main shoe, are prevented by it from marring the sides ofthe runner, especially when such are painted.

The auxiliary shoe, besides answering the purpose hereinbeforementioned, serves to strengthen the runner and to prevent wear of themain shoe.

The removable shoe may be applied to a runner unprovided with a fixed orpermanent shoe.

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

ln combination-with a sleigh or sled runner and a metallic shoe of likewidth adapted and permanently fixed thereto, an auxiliary metallic shoehaving a Width greater than that of the main shoe, and arranged beneathand against its tread, provided with means, as described, for fixing tothe runner and its permanent shoe, all being substantially as set forth.

HENRY B. HUNTINGTON.

Witnesses J AMES D. TUCKER, JACOB D. TUCKER.

